Adjustable stay for doors.



No. 761,400. PATENTED MAY 31, 1904.

- W. H. REED.

ADJUSTABLE STAY FOR DOORS. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 12, 1903.

no MODEL.

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PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. REED, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

ADJUSTABLE STAY FOR DOORS- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 761,400, dated. Ma.y 31, .1904.

Application filed August 12,1903.

T aZZ whom it may concern:

' skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

, My invention relates to adjustable stays or braces for screen'or other doors, gates, and like structures, has'for its object to provide a simple and inexpensive device to prevent their sagging and to insure their being, squarely supported and to swing freely while being opened or closed, and consists in certain improvements .in construction which will be fully disclosed in the following specification and claim. i

In the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a screen-door, showing my inventionapplied; Fig. 2, a plan view of the stretching device, and Fig. 3 a vertical longitudinal view of the same.

Reference being had to the drawings and the designating characters thereon, 1 indicates a door, to which is secured a bed-plate 2, provided with a lug 8, parallel with the plate, secured to the door by a screw 4. and having a right-angled lug 5, which embeds itself in the door-frame and which has an opening -6 for the passage of a wire 7. Said bed-plate2 is secured to the upper side-of on of the stiles of the door.

The bed-plate is provided with a ratchet 8, preferably cast integral with a spindle 9, in which is an opening 10 for the insertion of a rod or other implement (not shown) for turning the spindle and tightening the wire. The spindle 9 also has an opening 11 for the insertion of awire 7, which passes through said opening and is wound on the spindle. The spindle 9 terminates in a point 12, which embeds itself in the wooden door-frame, and thus forms a bearing for the spindle and is normally held in the plate 2 by a pin 13.

The ratchet 8 is'engaged by a pawl 14, which is held in position by a spring 15,

the ratchet in the plate.

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which is wound around a pin 16 and is secured in an opening17 in the bed-plate 2.

The device is fastened to the inside of the door or gate by any suitable means, preferably screws.

The wire 7 is looped at one end 18 and 'a screw 19 driven through the loop and screwed intothe lower end of the door-stile, opposite to the end or side on which the stretching device is fastened.

On the center stile 20 a staple 21 is driven over the wire 7 to prevent its rattling when the door is slammed either in opening or closing.

The operation of the invention is as follows: The wire 7 being looped at one end and secured to the lower end of one of the doorthe door at an oblique angle and is connected to the stretching device by inserting the wire inthe opening 6 and also in the opening 11 on the ratchet-spindle 9 and is turned outstiles by a screw or staple is then drawn across 7' ward, and the first turn passes between the end of the wire and the bed-plate and holds As the spindle 9 and the ratchet 8 are turnedthe wire 7 is drawn taut and the door is raised from the floor or door-sill and the sag taken out of the door. I

It will be readily understood that the oper-, ation may be repeated as many times as circumstances may require. 4 Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim is i A door-stay comprising a bed-plate provided with a lug at a right angle to said plate and having an opening for guiding the wire,

and a lug parallel with the plate to bear the door.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. REED.

Witnesses: I

RAY P. MoCoNNELL, T. J. SMITH. 

